日本作为一个强国的崛起是本世纪末引人注目的大事之一:西方出版了大量有关日本的专题论著。可是,日本人的头脑里想的是什么?他们对自己的国家怎么看?带着这些问题,我们采访了当代日本著名作家中上健次。中上健次今年42岁,他的小说《幸福一千年》,最近在法国翻译出版。采访是在东京的一个酒吧间里进行的,因为中上健次先 The rise of Japan as a power is one of the most dramatic events at the end of this century: the West has published a large number of monographs on Japan. However, what do Japanese people’s minds think? What do they think about their own country? With these questions, we interviewed the famous contemporary Japanese writer Kenji Kenji. The 42-year-old Kenji Kinji, his novel Happy Thousand Years, was recently translated and published in France. The interview was conducted in a bar in Tokyo as Kenji attended